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The RIDGEPRO®
The RIDGEPRO® Supports National Safety Stand Down
By The RIDGEPRO® It’s time to take a breath. Stop. Look around. Ask your crews: What fall hazards do you see on the jobsite? What can we do about them? During the first week of May for the past ten years, OSHA has reminded all of us in the construction trades ...
Roofers Are People Too
By The RIDGEPRO®. It's our responsibility to remember and respect that roofers are humans too, with their own complex lives. A successful roofing crew works like a well-oiled machine. In a perfect world, job specs were exact; materials arrived on time; equipment is always in tip-top shape; the weather is just right; ...
Five Tips for Embracing New Ideas
By The RIDGEPRO® Make it safe for innovation in your company. One of your estimators has been pushing you to purchase one of those high-tech measurement tools that uses aerial images to take roof measurements and then creates a comprehensive report and estimate for potential customers. You’ve been putting him off by ...
LIVE From IRE 2023 With The RidgePro!
Heidi J. Ellsworth meets with Brandon Strawder at IRE 2023 to discuss the latest updates from RIDGEPRO products. Editor's note: The following is the transcript of an live interview with Brandon Strawder from RidgePro. You can read the interview below or watch the video on YouTube. Heidi J. Ellsworth: We are ...
A Quality Focus Pays For Itself
By The RIDGEPRO™. By insisting and focusing on quality, your company will find success. When you’re running a business for the long term, it’s about more that just generating cash flow and paying the bills. It’s about building a stable enterprise and planning for future growth. It can be tough in the ...
When Shingles Fly
By RIDGEPRO. Safety considerations for windy days. Weather forecasting has steadily improved with satellites monitoring vast storm systems as they move around the globe. Hurricanes and blizzards no long mount surprise attacks. Roofing contractors know they are approaching and adjust schedules to meet their intensity. However, local short term weather forecasting a ...
Size Doesn’t Matter – Excellence Does
By RIDGEPRO. Learn the characteristics that make up an excellent roofing company. In just about any industry there are a few large players, with more in the mid-range, and the majority of companies classified as small businesses. There are almost 82,000 roofing contractors listed nationwide of all sizes and specialties. The really ...
Dollars & Sense
By Brandon Strawder, The RIDGEPRO®. What are worker injuries really costing your business? Roofing is acknowledged to be one of the most hazardous tasks in construction. The Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks injuries and fatalities in the workplace. In 2021, roofing and construction trades had 726 fatalities. The fatality rate for the ...
Groundhog Day on the Job
By Brandon Strawder, The RIDGEPRO®. Decrease instances of injury on your job site. In the movie, Groundhog Day, Bill Murray’s weatherman character, Phil, does just about everything he can think of to break out of the vicious loop he’s trapped in, even kidnapping the famous Punxsutawney groundhog. Once Phil has finally learned ...
Must Accidents Happen?
By Brandon Strawder, The RIDGEPRO®. Five tips for staying safe on a roof. To a home or commercial building owner, roofers often make the job look easy. They scurry up ladders and along steep surfaces carrying tools and materials. Shingles mount up in neat rows across hips and through valleys. The casual ...
